Sivad wrote:You're giving them too much credit, they're just wallbonking NPCs. Have you heard of the simulation hypothesis? It would explain a lot.
It can't hurt, they're obviously impervious to pain and immune to ridicule, they're beyond reason too. If they are real people their militant dedication to bullshit and ignorance is beyond me and it's clear that nothing I say or do can put a dent in their fucked mentality.
I find most of the sheeple to be of normal intelligence within the highly limited confines of their imaginary turfs. So, I don't believe in the simulation hypothesis or its variants. I think they set out their turf and get very scared to ever leave it. If you try arguing from how you think they understand things and not how you understand things, which is admittedly usually an act of semantics, I think this becomes sort of apparent because they will take your semantics with complete seriousness so long as it's
their semantics. Maybe that's hard to explain but it's basically how I argue with people.
For example, I had an argument with some guy who avoided having to say that Trump is a good President by using the "Presidents don't effect the economy" line. I didn't argue the point with him, instead I let him have it and said to him, "yeah but people think they do" and holy shit did he start going in circles.
It's kind of like this neighbor I had as a kid, the neighbor installed a sonic collar on the dog and buried things in the ground that would play a sound if the dog went outside the barrier. So I'd walk past and the dog would run in circles on the open lawn barking at me. I'm not sure this is more flattering than your zombie analogy but I try not to confuse an unwillingness to cross a line with a lack of an ability to cross a line, there's a subtle difference there I think.
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